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For every child who dares to dream big.

- JFM

For Florence, and thank you Asia
for all your support!

- DR

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval
system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including
photocopying, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.

LCCN 2016961449
ISBN 9781943147311

Text copyright 2017 by Julia Finley Mosca
Illustrations by Daniel Rieley
Illustrations copyright 2017 The Innovation Press

Published by The Innovation Press
1001 4th Avenue, Suite 3200, Seattle, WA 98154

www.theinnovationpress.com

Printed and bound by Worzalla
Production Date: May 2017
Plant Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Cover lettering by Nicole LaRue
Cover art by Daniel Rieley
Book layout by Rose Clemens

If you like to think BIG,
but some say youre too small,

or they say youre too young
or too slow or too tall...

Pay no mind to their doubts,
and just follow the path

of one AWESOME inventor,
PATRICIA E. BATH!

On the fourth of November
in Harlem, New York,

one family, the BATHS,
got a gift from a stork.

A baby! PATRICIA
quite clever was she.

All the good shed accomplish,
the world would soon see!

Now, this girl from New York...
she loved playing with boys.

Her big brother, so THOUGHTFUL,
shared all of his toys.

Every HOBBY he had,
she would copy. Its true.

She said, Anything BOYS can do,
GIRLS can do too!

Yet the toy she loved most
she will never forget

was a gift from her mother:
a CHEMISTRY SET.

Well, it got her to thinking,
Hey, science is NEAT!

This new passion of hers?
It just couldnt be beat.

As she grew a bit older,
she yearned to do more.

With science, Ill HELP
the worlds sick and the poor.

And a friend of the familys,
a DOCTOR so swell,

INSPIRED the teen.
I can be one as well!

But doctors back then?
Most were men, you will find.

Still, Patricia stood firm.
That did not change her mind.

See, her father was SMART
(and a jack-of-all-trades).

He had taught her:
Were EQUALall genders, all shades.

Yes, her parents were thrilled.
They encouraged her goal.

They said, Nothings off limits
no job, dream, or role.

The Baths didnt have much
but were WISE nonetheless.

EDUCATION, they said,
is the KEY to success.

Now, the problem with that?
Every nearby high school...

was only for white kids
with moneyNOT COOL.

So, to high school by TRAIN.
Nothing stopped her, you see,

and though most kids took four years,
she finished in THREE!

What next? Off to college.
Then MEDICAL school...

where she found that her classmates
were boys as a rule,

and when girls weren't allowed to
sit in the front row,

Patricia said, "PHOOEY!
That won't make me low."

All those unfair restrictions
did not bring her down.

There were more pressing matters
and no time to frown.

A decision was due
what her FOCUS would be.

Ive been thinking, she said.
I will help people SEE!

Then she studied the EYE
as an eager intern.

Treating hospital patients
was what helped her learn.

Through her work, she discovered,
Theres something not right.

Her black patients were BLIND
two times MORE than the white.

What has caused this to happen,
she wanted to know,

in locations like Harlem,
where money is low?

She came up with a plan:
We must CONQUER this plight.

The public, she said,

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